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From the mouth of the lion himself, Matt Cutts explains in this video that Google no longer takes the meta keyword tag into much consideration.  Although it might be hard to take for some of us that painstakingly coded meta keywords by hand for extensive online catalogs, fear not, other search engines may still rely on that information for help in ranking their indices.  I have included a transcript of the video below.  I can now recite the explanation by Matt Cutts because I had to “rewind” so many times…good stuff.

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